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Profile of Art Linkletter on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Art Linkletter  
   
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Date of Birth: 17th July 1912
   
Place of Birth: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Art Linkletter (born Arthur Gordon Kelly on July 17, 1912) was the host of two of the longest running shows in broadcast history: House Party, which ran on CBS TV and Radio for 25 years, and People Are Funny, which ran on NBC TV and Radio for 19 years. He was abandoned at an early age in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and adopted by the Linkletter family.

Art was famous for interviewing children and has been imitated many times in such shows as Kids Say the Darndest Things.

Art's daughter, Diane Linkletter, committed suicide on October 4, 1969 by jumping out of her sixth floor kitchen window. She was 21 years old. Several contradictory stories were brought forward, and Art concluded that she committed suicide because she was on or having a flashback from an LSD trip. Several reports claimed that there was no involvement from LSD, but Art still continues to speak out against drugs. Art also lost his son to an automobile accident.

Linkletter recently opened the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of Disneyland at the age of 93. Linkletter commentated on the opening day celebrations in 1955, and was a good friend of Walt Disney.

He received a lifetime achievement Daytime Emmy in 2003.

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